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Amnesty Int'l Report 2009 on Tanzania, Oblivious of East Africa's Mistreated and Persecuted Muslims By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Tanzania’s mistreated, oppressed, and persecuted Muslims were not a matter of concern for the leading humanitarian NGO Amnesty International. That’s why there is no mention to Muslim minority, to their rights’ violations, mistreatment and persecution in the Amnesty International Report 2009 on Tanzania. To offer balanced and true information, I republish the Report along with an insightful feature on “African Islam in Tanzania” elaborated by Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi and David Westerlund (March 1997).
Apartheid cases and reparation By : James N. Kariuki
In the course of next year, the United States Supreme Court will make a crucial ruling. It will determine whether or not to hear an appeal against a New York court's recent ruling to reinstate a lawsuit to hold large multinational corporations (MNCs) liable for their racist actions in apartheid South Africa. The defendants include the world's giants: Barclays, Citicorp, Mercedes-Benz, IBM, Shell and General Motors, all Western-based.
Global reparations vs human exploitation By : James N. Kariuki
A decade ago, Africa threw its weight behind the cause of reparations for Blacks universally. Encouraged by the Japanese-Americans' victory of 1989 in the US, African-Americans revived their own crusade with renewed vigour. From the 1990s they have pushed the reparations crusade right up to Capital Hill in Washington, DC. The current demand is for compensating African-Americans as the most immediate responsibility of the United States.